Le Chemin des Fantômes Lésés, Partie 1 Le Chemin des Fantômes Lésés

Chapitre 12

He raised one hand and suddenly unleashed a spiritual energy strike downwards. Sparks seemed to flash in the air, and the carrion ghosts, which had climbed into a tower-like structure like ladders, squeaked and fell back, landing on the carrion ghosts below, gurgling and squabbling in disarray. This strike momentarily slowed Lou Lifan's descent, but it had little effect, and he quickly resumed his fall at an even faster pace.

A multitude of thoughts flashed through his mind in an instant—should he use his spiritual energy to fly?! No! That would almost use up all his spiritual power! If there were any more attacks, he would only be waiting to die! Or should he use sealing techniques? No, that wouldn't work either! How could he seal so many ghosts?! And then…wait? So many ghosts…!?

Back when I was still at home, my mother, a witch, once said that there weren't many people in this world who could truly control demons, and those who could control more than a hundred demons at the same time were extremely rare. As for those who could imprison and seal demons, sealing five hundred at once was already remarkable, let alone a thousand! So what are these demons? Are they kept and controlled by someone? He was certain he was dreaming—though he didn't know whose dream it was—but would anyone really seal so many demons in their own dream? What if the dream was shattered by these demons? Wouldn't the dreamer die? Could it be that person was truly so twisted as to be unimaginably abnormal… No!!

He suddenly spun around in mid-air, changing his position from head-down to facing the scavengers' bellies. He amplified his superpowers, unleashing spiritual energy from all four limbs. A curtain of blue light burst forth from him, forming a protective shield around the scavengers beneath him, and continued to expand outwards. When it had expanded sufficiently, he shouted, "Seal!" The shield of blue light snapped shut, retracting at the same speed as its expansion.

The screams of the carrion demons inside the seal were like a torrent, almost deafening him. He was somewhat annoyed, but after the seal completely closed, becoming a huge sealing sphere, the sounds disappeared with a snap.

"Honestly... it looks pretty realistic! I almost fell for it!" He turned around and slowly landed on the sealing sphere.

As he expected, although he hadn't determined the end of the carrion demons, the sealing net that was opened and closed so casually hadn't left behind a single carrion demon. Now he and his sealing sphere were standing alone in what seemed like a wasteland, surrounded only by low, dry, black trees that had been dead for many years.

He could feel the faint stirring of Pei Linhai's first layer again. This was indeed Pei Linhai's dream. In other words, what he had just experienced was truly in "someone else's" dream. It was that "dream" that separated him from Pei Linhai's dream.

He slowly withdrew the spiritual energy from the sealing sphere from under his feet, and the sphere gradually shrank. When it shrank to about the height of a person, he jumped down from it.

"Alright, let me see how many of you there are. You've made me so flustered..."

He placed one hand on the seal, and the blue color on the sphere began to fade, gradually transforming into a transparent seal that revealed what was inside... He was dumbfounded.

"How...how could it be you guys?!?!" A voice so high-pitched it was almost unrecognizable. A poor little black tree swayed a few times and broke off.

"We didn't want this either..."

An awkward, helpless, bitter smile... came from Su Jueming and his group.

That's right, the things Lou Lifan went to so much trouble to seal here were Tian Jin, Luo Tianwu, Su Jueming, Le Sui, and Gongye! The four of them were crammed into the small sealing sphere, which was more than a meter tall, and they looked to be in a very uncomfortable state.

"How could this be!?" Lou Lifan said incredulously, "I clearly sealed away a carrion demon..."

He initially thought those carrion ghosts were "real illusions"—someone had placed a few real carrion ghosts there and then created a large number of incredibly realistic images. It was like having thousands of kaleidoscopes displayed there. So he used the search seal, believing the real carrion ghosts couldn't be too far away, but he never expected… it was them!?

"Instead of wasting your energy thinking about that, why don't you release us quickly!" Tian Jin's eerie aura returned. If she was like this even in her spirit body shrouded in spiritual light, then what about her physical body under normal circumstances... It seems she was truly, truly, truly furious.

Lou Lifan suddenly realized what was happening and immediately withdrew the seal. As soon as the five people landed, they collapsed to their knees, exhausted.

It wasn't that they wanted to kneel down, but the seal of the sealing demon itself had the property of absorbing the sealed object. Even in just a short while, a lot of their power was absorbed.

"You...are you out of your mind?!" Luo Tianwu's ability is curses, which gives her some resistance to curse-related abilities like absorbing power, so she recovered relatively quickly. She jumped up from the ground first and grabbed Lou Lifan by the collar. "When we saw you fall, we were kind enough to try and catch you, but what did you do?! You didn't even look at us before unleashing a spiritual energy attack! That's bad enough! But you even cast such a huge net to seal us! We had nowhere to escape! Tell me! What do you mean by this?!"

"..." Lou Lifan stared at him for a long while without even frowning, "...I made a mistake."

Luo Tianwu fell down~

"You...you can't even apologize?!" Su Jueming exclaimed.

Lou Lifan casually brushed Luo Tianwu's hand away and turned to walk towards the source of the commotion coming from the first level of Peilinhai.

“Instead of wasting time on such trivial matters, we should hurry up and get Pei Linhai out so we can get out of here,” he said.

Luo Tianwu was so angry she jumped up and down. Tian Jin felt a little better and stood up from the ground, saying in a sinister tone, "You can't get an apology from someone like him unless the sun comes up at night. Let's finish our business first and then talk about it."

Although the four were still furious, they could only nod—just kidding, he was their "vessel"!

After Tian Jin brought them here, she stopped walking and started muttering calculations to herself about which way to go. She was incredibly strict with herself, needing to be absolutely certain of the exact direction. When Lou Lifan fell, she was calculating whether a 125.64-degree left turn or a 73.15-degree right turn was better… If they had waited for her to finish calculating, they probably wouldn't have gotten there until next semester! That's why they were so grateful to heaven for sending Lou Lifan here so quickly…

but--!

That bastard actually did something so ridiculous! After all this time, he still can't tell the difference between a spirit and a ghost?! We beat them up and locked them up. If they're outside, we'll definitely sue him for abusing his powers!

However, they still need his abilities here, so for the time being they can only dare to be angry but not speak out.

Lou Lifan followed the direction of the inspiration search, with Tian Jin and the group of four close behind.

It's truly baffling who created this dream, with its vast expanse. They've traveled an unknown distance, yet still can't find where the "core" should be.

"Could I have gone to the wrong place...?" Lou Lifan couldn't help but mutter to himself. However, he wouldn't say it out loud, otherwise Luo Tianwu and the others would cause a lot of trouble, and even if he really made a mistake, telling them wouldn't help at all.

Walking a little further, green gradually appeared underfoot. At first, it was tender green grass shoots, thinly and sparsely covering the ground. Then it gradually turned into fine, sprouting grass, followed by small trees, slowly growing taller trees, and finally towering trees...

Unbeknownst to them, the wilderness around them had been replaced by forests, and the surroundings were lush and green, with nameless birds singing sweetly in the woods.

Luo Tianwu and the others, who had very little experience with the supernatural, were dumbfounded, while Lou Lifan and Tian Jin frowned and became secretly on guard.

Even if a person can have two or three dreams simultaneously, there won't be different magnetic waves appearing at that "simultaneous" moment. Therefore, the dreams will be largely similar, with a basically the same style. If, at this time, the style of the dream suddenly changes, then you must be extremely careful! Either someone is interfering, or the dreamer has experienced some kind of stimulation, causing a sudden change in the dream pattern. At this time, it is very easy to get lost. Throughout history, almost everyone who has died in someone else's dream has fallen victim to this.

"Ohh ...

However, they were wrong; the person who laughed wasn't the perverted principal, but someone else—

A boy.

The boy was very handsome; if they didn't see his clothes, they would mistake him for a girl. When they saw him, he was sitting very elegantly on a tree branch, with long black hair like spider claws spreading out behind him, which made his handsome face look eerie.

"Hello, I'm Tang Xin, your instructor for tonight~^^ Do you need any help?"

Chapter Six: A Double Test

Lou Lifan deeply resented the bureaucratic style of the teachers at Byte Academy who asked questions they already knew the answers to. If it were someone else—like Luo Tianwu and her group of four—they would definitely have given some face to such a handsome face. Unfortunately, he was not one of them.

He remained expressionless and cold, saying, "You've led us out of Pei Linhai's dream again, haven't you? Where is Pei Linhai? I'm taking him back."

Tang Xin laughed strangely, "Oh ho ho ho... You two really have a great relationship! Being a couple is definitely not just for show~"

Lou Lifan remained cold and said, "You made three mistakes. First, I had my reasons for rescuing him, which have nothing to do with what you're thinking. Second, whether our relationship is good or bad is none of your business. Third, you didn't answer my question."

"What a boring guy!" Tang Xin said, dissatisfied, and lightly jumped down from the tree.

Well… saying he "jumped" isn't quite right. He actually "slid" down, like there was a slide there and he gently slid down it. However, he didn't touch the ground; his feet were still off the ground, floating in mid-air, sitting with his legs crossed.

"Alright, I know you're here to bring Pei Linhai back," that's for sure! What a load of rubbish! Lou Lifan glared at him, but Tang Xin remained unmoved. "But this is, after all, an internship… of course I won't let you leave so easily! Oh ho ho ho ho ho… especially after you've offended me so much!"

Luo Tianwu and her three companions cried out in a panic, "Beautiful teacher! It was him who offended you! It has nothing to do with us! ... Waaah!"

When Tang Xin heard them call her "beautiful girl" teacher, two beams of white light suddenly shot out from her eyes. The four people instinctively retreated quickly, but they couldn't dodge the death beam that could actually bend. In an instant, they were electrocuted, their bodies emitting a pungent aroma, surrounded by smoke, and screaming in agony...

"Who are you calling a beautiful girl! My name is Tang Xin, but that doesn't mean I'm a girl! Even though I'm incredibly beautiful... you're not allowed to mistake me for someone else!!"

This was the first time Lou Lifan had ever seen such a narcissistic person, and he didn't want to say a single unnecessary word to him.

"My goal is to take Pei Linhai out and tell me your terms."

"My conditions are very simple..."

Tang Xin snapped her fingers behind her, and the densely planted trees suddenly spread out to both sides.

About ten meters away from them, an open space had been cleared, and a person dressed in a long gauze dress floated in mid-air. A halo of holy white light descended from the sky, illuminating the person and giving off a beautiful and serene atmosphere. Everyone's eyes were drawn to her; how beautiful she was…

Ah...that's exactly what they wanted to describe it, but...

That means, if the person wearing that sexy and revealing gauze dress wasn't Pei Linhai...

Luo Tianwu and the others ran to the side and started vomiting violently. Tian Jin's eyes shrank to the size of mung beans, and a crow flew over Lou Lifan's already stiff head...

"That...what exactly is it...?"

Just imagine! Imagine a tall man, nearly 190 centimeters tall, wearing a pristine white gauze dress, his powerful pectoral muscles exposed at the sexy low neckline, his large feet and hairy legs dangling outside the dress…

After staring blankly for another five seconds, Tian Jin also ran to the side to vomit.

Lou Lifan, true to form, had once been dressed as a woman himself, and remained remarkably calm... Instead of vomiting, he stiffly turned to face Tang Xin, who was laughing triumphantly at her own achievement: "You... you wouldn't happen to have anything to do with that perverted principal, would you..."

That can't be...

"Oh ho ...

Even their laughter sounds almost the same...

But now is not the time to concern myself with such things. In any case, all the teachers at this school have some problems. It doesn't matter whether they are the son of that perverted principal or not, as long as they can complete their internships and go abroad.

"...We've already gained a fairly direct understanding of the captivating aesthetic sense of you father and son..." Lou Lifan struggled to keep himself from vomiting like the others, and said, "Tell me, how do I complete the internship?"

"Hehehehehehehehe..." Tang Xin laughed innocently, "Didn't the principal already say before we came in? You're rescuing 'Sleeping Beauty'~ So~~~~~"

Lou Lifan suddenly had a very bad premonition...

"All you need to do is have one of you kiss him! ^^"

Suddenly, images of themselves kissing those transvestite-like creatures flashed through Tian Jin's mind, and they began to vomit uncontrollably again.

Lou Lifan stood there frozen, and you could see the skin on his face trembling slightly...

"So, in order to complete this internship, and to ensure your dream internship doesn't fail... choose a representative! ^^"

Tian Jin and the other four people's gazes shot towards Lou Lifan, whose face began to turn black as if he had been poisoned.

"Don't--think about it!" Lou Lifan said, enunciating each word clearly.

"Brother Lou--"

"Don't call me!"

"But……"

"Whoever wants to go can go! I'm not going!" Lou Lifan roared. It seemed this matter was putting a lot of pressure on him (it would be strange if he wasn't). "Tell me! Who among you wants to go!?"

Those people—including Tian Jin—took a step back together.

"Since that's the case... Tianjin! You're the only girl here, do you want to kiss him?"

"I don't want to," Tian Jin replied, her face turning green. "A girl's first kiss is very precious; how can it be wasted on a transvestite like this?"

"Luo Tianwu?"

"No way! My first kiss is for a pretty girl!"

"Su Jueming?"

"Me too! No matter how many times it's my first kiss, I'll never give it to a transvestite!" (Xiao Ming... that Nth kiss doesn't count as a first kiss...)

"Le Sui?"

"I...I...I'd rather die than do that! Just kill me!" (There's no need for that.)

"It hasn't reached that point yet... Gongye? Gongye?"

Gongye had already vomited until he fainted.